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United States Patent | 6,014,592 |
Fechter ,   et al. | January 11, 2000 |
A cheese-producing textile machine 1 with a central control unit 37 and a plurality of winding stations 2 which are serviced by an autonomously operating service unit 23. The central control unit 37 of the textile machine 1 is connected via a machine bus 40 with individual winding station computers 39 as well as with a control device 38 of the service unit 23. Control programs A, B, C, D, etc. are stored in the control device 38 of the service unit 23, and are specially adapted to various respective structural configurations of the service unit 23. It is possible in a simple manner to activate the control programs A, B, C, D, etc. in correspondence to the particular prevailing structural configuration of the service unit 23 by means of appropriate software encoding via an input element 41 on the central control unit 23.
Inventors: | Fechter; Ulrich (Monchengladbach, DE); Schwartz; Peter (Monchengladbach, DE) |
Assignee: | W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. (Moenchengladbach, DE) |
Appl. No.: | 969728 |
Filed: | November 13, 1997 |
Current U.S. Class: | 700/130; 242/157.1; 242/473.6; 242/483.5; 242/485.9; 700/139; 700/140; 700/142; 711/148 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 019/00; G06G 007/66; 470.12; 470.13; 470.15; 470.14; 470.1 |
Field of Search: | 364/470.01,470.02,470.03,470.04,470.05,470.06,470.07,470.08,470.09,470.11 242/39,35.5 A,35.5 R,18.5,54,483.5,43.6,157.1,485.9 57/281,270,261,263,264 700/130,131,132,133,139,140,142 |
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5697565 | Dec., 1997 | Zitzen | 242/18. |
5762277 | Jun., 1998 | Uedinger et al. | 242/158. |
5801949 | Sep., 1998 | Raasch et al. | 364/470. |
5823460 | Oct., 1998 | Hermanns | 242/485. |
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